Ana Cristea Gallery opens exhibition of works by James Viscardi

The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Thursday, March 28, 2024


Ana Cristea Gallery opens exhibition of works by James Viscardi
Installation view of works by James Viscardi on view at Ana Cristea Gallery.



NEW YORK, NY.- Brothers and sisters: Welcome to the all inclusive, immersive lifestyle brand, predicated on our twenty-first century savoire faire. We accept change with a swipe, dive head first into the as-yet-defined domestic future. Bliss! Our quest is for a blind indoctrinating love; our revolution is in an anti-oxidant room-spray. It's the speed on the deli counter turned up several notches. I am the quack doctor and my prescription is skin deep, a BOGO of love and adoration. My icons are all around us like follies in a garden of earthly delights. Sins are irrelevant here. The most haunting of our demons is a delayed flight from EWR to MIA, economy.

Booby-traps have been set strategically throughout the nouveau modernist domestic theater. Trip-lines hide at the entrance to every room. They were set to keep us on our toes. They must be kept in good working order. Paintings, posters, computer screens et al. - they are interminable traps and releases. Slapstick performances to take us to the other side of the two way mirror, to our most private inner desires and aspirations. Advertisements for something we didn't even know we needed. An Impressionist future love. Look too deep and we end up right back where we started. A room full of self-portraits where nothing ever changes, save the costumes and the scripts. Sit back in this theater box and watch the drama unfold. You'll soon find yourself disappearing into the fabric, yet another thread in the meme.

The painter, the shaman, the shape-shifter. I am a collector of fragments from the past present and the future past. History is irrelevant but for its catalogue of failed experiments. Like the joke without a punch-line. Stitched together, the incongruent pieces form a patchwork; the scars where they meet are the only record of their meaning. Ideas repurposed for contemporary demands. This is the digital incubator for new ideas, a baroque smoothie of home, office, showroom, ad infinitum. And we follow, collapsing, headfirst, into the present perfect.

James Viscardi (b. 1985) was born and currently lives and works in New York. In 2011 he graduated from Royal College of Art in London with an MA in Painting, after receiving his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. Present Perfect will be Viscardi's his first solo show in the United States. Viscardi describes his practice as an act of cannibalism in which the present of his canvases is co-opted from recycled fragments of a historical narrative. By shifting their context and incorporating elements from contemporary culture, they take on new meaning beyond the fragments of their former selves.










Today's News

July 4, 2013

A record for a Spanish Old Master: El Greco's "Saint Dominic in Prayer" makes $13,876,391

Christie's announces auction of works that celebrate the great modern muse Kate Moss

Inspired by Temptation: Odilon Redon and Saint Anthony at Cantor Arts Center

New multimedia displays at the Louvre show masterpieces of Spanish painting

Bonhams California and Western Art Auction offers views from the Sierras to Skagway

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers to offer the Adell Venus Collection of Miniatures

New exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg celebrates Color Acting

New exhibition featuring rare and exquisite dresses opens at Kensington Palace

Simon Denny: The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom opens at mumok in Vienna

Cameron Gray's state-of-the-art digital technology on view at Mike Weiss Gallery

Tyler Museum of Art unveils major internationally celebrated Deco Japan exhibition

Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam presents the work of celebrated American photographer Jock Sturges

"Antonio Lopez and the World of Fashion Art" opens at La Galerie Pfriem at SCAD Lacoste

Parrish Art Museum presents Josephine Meckseper's installations as part of Parrish Platform

Ana Cristea Gallery opens exhibition of works by James Viscardi

Group exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery speculates on alternative futures for society

In the Absence of: Anna Landa opens exhibition at Christopher Henry Gallery

Yard Sale: A group show with a little bit of everything to open at Lesley Heller

New works by Vittorio Corsini and Kyung Woo Han on view at Gazelli Art House

MACT/CACT Switzerland opens two concurrent exhibitions that aim to penetrate one another




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful